Simons: StackBlitz shelved Bolt in February until Claude 3.5 preview arrived
Eric Simons · No Priors Ep. 92 | With StackBlitz CEO and Co-Founder Eric Simons · Dec 6, 2024 · at 18:24
StackBlitz CEO Eric Simons describes the internal origin and development timeline of Bolt.new to Sarah Guo.
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“Earlier this year, I think like in February, we had the idea for Bolt. We tried to build it with some of the, you know, frontier models available at that time. Wasn't possible to do. the models were just did not spit back quality, accurate code that was constantly breaking, which ruins the experience. It doesn't work. Right. So we put the project on the shelf and then once we kind of got an early preview of the new sonnet stuff, we're like, wow, this is okay. This is, this changes everything.”
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